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A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceæ; hemp. Cannabis Indica (, the Indian hemp, a powerful narcotic, now considered a variety of the common hemp.

A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.

The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm. Prescott.

Cannon, collectively; artillery. The ringing of bells and roaring of cannonry proclaimed his course through the country. W. Irving.

In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.

A liquid measure in Spain, ranging from two and a half to four gallons. Simmonds.

A singing. [Obs.] Blount.

Caontaining cant or affectation; whining; singing. [R.]

Of or belonging to a cantor. Cantoral staff, the official staff or baton of a cantor or precentor, with which time is marked for the singers.

A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.

The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.

Belonging to the Carangidæ, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish.

ion in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.

Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases.

Belonging a prison. [R.] Foxe.

An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine.

A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. Coleridge. Such heavenly notes and carolings. Spenser.

Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.